Hi all, I have a mailet application (say myapp.jar) that performs some dynamic classloading based on a configuration file. As I am using James 2.1.2 for the moment, I place myapp.jar into james.sar$SAR-INF/lib.
I want to be able to add new classes (say myplugin.jar) to the application without modifying james.sar. These classes may require some utility classes which I have packaged together with myapp.jar. I am looking forward recommendations on where to place the JAR files required by my application. If I put myplugin.jar into the Phoenix's lib directory, the application can see the new classes, but the new classes cannot use the utility classes from myapp.jar. I can split myapp.jar into myapp-mailet.jar (where I put the mailets and matchers) and myapp-util.jar (where I put the rest of the application). In such a case, myapp-mailet.jar goes into james.sar and myapp-util.jar goes into lib (together with myplugin.jar). It works! However, myapp-util.jar requires some libraries usually packaged into james.sar, such as activation.jar and mail_1_3.jar. My current solution consists in placing a second copy of those libraries into Phoenix's lib. I know that this is dirty, but I have not observed any conflict so far. Is there a better place where I can put libraries required by both my mailets and my utility classes? Which would be the benefits of using Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass() instead of my current Class.forName()? My understanding of James 2.2.x classloading is that I will be able to place my whole mailet application into the Phoenix's lib directory. Will I still be able to use libraries from james.sar such as activation.jar? Sorry for the long e-mail and thanks for your time & patience. Diego --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
